05 Jul 2018

 The Assistant Minister of Land management, Water and Sanitation Services, Mr Itumeleng Moipisi, says water and sewerage reticulations are components of the Maun Water Supply and Sanitation Upgrade Project.

Mr Moipisi told Parliament on July 4 that the implementation of the project was packaged into two phases saying Phase one consisted of the water reticulation only and was successfully completed.

He said Phase two included both water reticulation and sewerage infrastructure.

Minister Moipisi noted that the project was packaged for implementation into four contracts as a Design and Build delivery model with a total estimated cost of P2.5 billion.

In the meantime Mr Moipisi said the implementation of Phase two would start as soon as funds were available.

However, as a medium term (up to 2020) solution, he said the ministry had also completed  sewerage infrastructure projects.

One of the completed projects, Mr Moipisi said was the  wastewater treatment plant commissioned at Letsholathebe Hospital in 2015.

The plant, he said was currently serving the hospital and Wildlife Training Centre while in April 2018 Maun sanitation network was optimised and remedial works were undertaken on the network at a cost of P3.2 million.

Mr Moipisi also told Parliament that the sewerage reticulation project was first conceptualised in the late 1990s.

MP  for Maun West Mr Tawana Moremi had asked the minister to brief Parliament on the progress  made in the development of sewerage infrastructure in Maun and when the reticulation infrastructure was first conceptualised. ENDS